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Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
ownCloud Infinite Scale: Green IT and Sustainable Data Strategy
At it-sa 2022 in Nuremberg, ownCloud presented its contribution to Green IT and the concept of sustainable data strategy. This article takes a closer look at how we want to support climate-neutral IT in a sustainable way.
Kiteworks Open Source Program Office (ownCloud)
Kiteworks empowers organizations to manage risk in every send, share, receive, and save of sensitive content, protecting over 200 million end users across thosuands of global enterprises and government agencies. The Kiteworks Open Source Program Office is the steward of ownCloud, the open-source platform for sovereign secure data exchange, file synchronization, and collaboration. Built from the ground up in Go with zero database dependency, ownCloud Infinite Scale scales from a single binary to million-user deployments. Guided by a published governance charter and Apache 2.0 licensing, the OSPO ensures ownCloud remains a transparent, community-driven digital commons.
Opensource.com: Back to school: 5 open source programs for students and teachers
Educators need convenient digital lockers to stash student projects and teacher work, but protecting student data privacy is a growing concern. With rampant data mining, surveillance, and third party sharing of sensitive data by commercial cloud and application...
ownCloud Contributor Conference Rocked!
The ownCloud Contributor Conference started Friday the 28th of August with ownCloud contributors gathering in the hacking rooms at the TU Berlin. Saturday saw some exciting keynotes and announcements, as well as a series of lightning talks, workshops and our live...
The Practical ownCloud Conference Guide
Participating in the ownCloud Conference? In this blog you can find all the practical information you need to know. If you can't make it - check out our live stream! The ownCloud Contributor Conference is just a couple of days away and we’re excited to welcome all of...
Softpedia: ownCloud Desktop Client 2.0 Arrives with Support for Multiple Accounts, More
ownCloud, a software company known for developing and deploying the most popular self-hosting cloud server solution on the market, announced today, August 25, the immediate availability for download of ownCloud Desktop Client 2.0. According to the announcement,...
Datanami: Five Reasons for Leaving Your Data Where It Is
As cloud adoption continues its meteoric ascent, the number of access points to enterprise data also increases. And while keeping data on premise is no guarantee of security, it does drastically reduce the number of access points. But the case for keeping data on...
Desktop Client 2.0 – Offering Multi-Account and Large Folder Sync
Today ownCloud has released the newest version of the Desktop Client, 2.0. With this release comes the resolution of numerous bugs, as well as two brand new features: multi-account and large folder sync thresholds. One of the most consistent requests we have had for...
ownCloud Desktop Client 2.0 is out with Multi Account Support and More
Version 2.0.0 of the ownCloud Desktop Sync Client has been released today. It introduces multi-account support, large folder sync confirmation and more features. Your client will automatically update and packages for your Linux distribution are be available as well....
Interested in Mobile Development for ownCloud? We’re at the Conference!
Friday this week the ownCloud Contributor Conference will be kicking off. Among the many ownCloud developers, there are the people working on ownCloud’s Android and iOS clients. Our repositories have been very busy lately, with especially the Android client getting...
Solutions Review: Is the Cloud an On-Premise Backup Killer?
BBC: How firms are fighting off spies and hackers
Perhaps not surprisingly, a Ponemon Institute study in April found that there has been a 34% growth in businesses using encryption methods to protect their communications. Headlines about cyber-attacks undoubtedly drive a greater demand for privacy, says Matt...
Users Receive Eviction Notice from Storage Service Wuala
By now you may have heard the announcement from Seagate that they are shutting down their cloud storage service, Wuala, this coming November. This gives users a little less than two months to back up any files they have stored in the cloud or risk it being lost...
Follow the ownCloud Contributor Conference from anywhere – with our Live-Stream
It’s time again – the ownCloud Contributor Conference is just about here. For one week, the ownCloud Community from around the globe will gather in Berlin to code, design, discuss, talk & have fun. Packed with Techtalks, Workshops and a Hackathon, the ownCloud...
App Store Changes in ownCloud 8.1
Some weeks ago we published a blog about changes for developers in ownCloud and promised to talk more about the app store process this week. In this post we explain the process - how to get your app in the ownCloud app store and how to get it approved for easy...
ownCloud Server Development Second Half of July
In this post we describe ownCloud core development in the last two weeks of July. Since the previous report covering the massive amount of new features getting merged, there has been a bit of a shift towards stability, but there still is enough to write about in the...
OpenSource.com: What’s next for the privacy-conscious ownCloud project
Frank Karlitschek is a free software developer and privacy activist. He'll be speaking at LinuxCon North America in August of this year. His topic, "Open source, safe and secure; A case for leaving data where it is," is very timely given the rash of data breaches...